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Definition: HEBETATE |
HEBETATEAdjective1. Having a dull or blunt and soft point. 2. Obtuse; dull. Transitive verb1. To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insensibility | Render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy; brutify; brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize, put under; assify. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HEBETATE |
| English words defined with "HEBETATE": Hebetated, Hebetating. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "HEBETATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tompa eszû (logy), elbutít (dull, to dull). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ebetatehay.(various references) | |
Romanian | tâmpi (addle, besot, blunt, dull, flabbergast, flummox, stupefy), se tâmpi. (various references) | |
Russian | притуплять (abate, blunt, deaden, dull, narcotize, rebate, stupefy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tup (blank, blunt, cloddish, dull, obtuse, stolid), otupeti (deaden, grow numb, pall, pall on). (various references) | |
Turkish | zekâsını köreltmek, aptallaştırmak (render stupid, stultify, stultify the mind). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HEBETATE": hebetated, hebetates. (additional references) | |
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"HEBETATE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chefette, habitate, Hugette. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-h-t-t" | |
-2 letters: teethe. | |
-3 letters: bathe, betta, teeth, thebe, theta. | |
-4 letters: abet, baht, bate, bath, batt, beat, beet, beta, beth, eath, haet, hate, heat, hebe, tate, teat, teth, thae, that, thee. | |
-5 letters: ate, att, bah, bat, bee, bet, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, het, tab, tae, tat, tea, tee, tet, the. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-h-t-t" | |
+1 letter: hebetated, hebetates. | |
+2 letters: hartebeest. | |
+3 letters: hartebeests. | |
+4 letters: bachelorette. | |
+5 letters: bachelorettes. | |
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